WORKING WITH GROUPS: THE CONSULTANT STANCE.

abstract The paper recalls experiences as a member of groups taken by Isabel Menzies Lyth during the 1960s and the significance of matters of 'presence' and stance. It sketches out ways in which she was to extend Bion's frame of reference to take account of the institutional contexts in which groups were located and her insistence on the two-way inter-relation between individual and group work, psychoanalysis and group relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]